IIKPPNER (ORK.I CiAZETTE-TIMES, Thunday, February I. 1173
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Takes Cams from Idaho
to Taiwan
Of his recent trip to take
cattle to Taiwan, Gerald Swag
gart says "Now the people over
there think that every Ameri
can Cowboy wears blue and
white striped overalls."
The airlift of 217 head of cattle
was the first of three flights put
together by Fulkerson and
Associates. Members are
Merve Fulkerson of Aloha, Don
Norden of Kimberly, Ore.
rancher and son-in-law of the
Swaggarts, Claire Stratton,
Boise, formerly of Pendleton
who operates an airplane sales
It service business and Wayne
Baldwin, Boise. Mrs. Fulkerson
is a daughter of a retired officer
of the Taiwan Navy.
Gerald went along on the first
flight with Frank Phillips be
cause they both knew cattle.
However Gerald says "Never
again that's a job for a young
man."
Arrive at Taiwan
Through a slip-up, customs
didn't know the calves were
coming and they didnt want
them to unload and the cattle
had to wait an hour.
Albert Lee, related to Mrs.
Fulkerson was their interp
reter. Very soon trucks of every
description were on hand to
haul the calves 35 miles to a
brand new quarantine station.
Tailgates were a bamboo pole
or two. Gerald rode out with
their head veterinarian.
"Traffic was terrific. There's
bicycles, ox carts, water buffalo
and people in the road." At one
time traffic moved to one side to
let a train go by.
The new installation was
brand new for these calves.
They had shaded areas, cement
troughs for feed bunks. They
had taken enough medication
for the calves' water for five
days and for pink eye.
While he was explaining how
to use the medication, he was
told that a calf had been lost
enroute. "Pitch dark in a rice
paddy is no place to catch one
scared calf". Gerald asked for a
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..Gerald Swaggart who says
the people in Taiwan now think
that all American Cowboys
wear blue and white striped
overalls.
They left Boise Saturday Jan.
20 about midnight on a Boeing
707 on a KAL (Korean Air
Lines) plane and arrived at
their destination 18 hours later.
The heifer Hereford-Holstein
cross calves were in plastic
cargo containers contoured to
the sides of the plane with 8 on
the top deck and 10 on the lower
deck.
Each container had two doors
on each side. The men could not
go between the containers to
check the load. The loss from
pile-up was less than 2 percent.
Gerald said the calves were
quiet. They received no feed or
water enroute. The two men
recommended that efforts be
made to keep the temperature
down in the plane. The men
stayed on the plane with the
cattle although the plane stop
ped at Anchorage, Tokyo and
Seoul. The crew brought them
food at each stop.
rope and they gave him a "
worn out rope. The natives
surrounded the calf and the calf
ran into the rope and he caught
it and put it in the truck. They
were grand people. While they
were trying to round up the calf,
a native women offered him a
genuine Chinese tea to drink. "It
wasn't like ours. Just delicious,
not as strong and was real
sweet".
Cheap Lodging
That night they stayed at the
Kingdom Hotel, tetter than the
Imperial, for just $9.00 a night.
Breakfast was very American.
He had ham and eggs. People
were very friendly and were
dressed the same as here.
Young people were very clean
and neat, no long hair.
Sa me Size as Oregon
Taiwan is about the same size
as Oregon with 14,000 square
miles. There's 15 million people.
Every available space is farm
ed to provide food for their
people. Now that they have
heavy equipment, they are
leveling the hills for rice. Their
tractors are yellow Cater
pillars. They can raise three crops of
rice and one crop of barley on
v.
Thatfc when lower Long Distance
rates begin on weekdays.
The best time to share the good times in the
northwest is after 5 PM on weekdays. Thafs when
lower Long Distance rates begin. And that's when
you're likely to find friends and family at home.
So go ahead and spread the good word.
Long Distance calls get people together.
the same piece of land In a year.
Temperatures were 80 to 83
degree.
He was flown to Seoul for
more questions by KAL. This
was a first for them and they
wanted to team all the problems
of this first trip and how to
overcome them for future cattle
trips.
He went shopping to buy his
wife a double knit white silk suit
and jade rings for his three
daughters and Bonnie Buschke.
Mr. Buschke helped with the
chores al the Swaggart ranch
while he was gone.
He Came Faster Than He Went
He arrived at LA Internation
al Airport after a brief stop at
Honolulu and returned home
that evening. He was gone just
under a week.
The heifers will provide milk
and later a calf and meat for the
people of Taiwan. Since Geralds
return, the other two trips have
been completed.
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The truth about Brraate,
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Krom a weed that lived jest long enough
to tell about it.
"Oh, it was terrible. A tragic day
for weeds indeed.
There we were happily robbing
the wheat of their precious moisture and
nutrients when the Bronate hit.
First the gromwell.tarweed,
henbit and dogfennel keeled over and died.
Then the mustard family collapsed
' simultaneously. And finally my own family
of crowfoot went before my very eyes.
I'd heard about Bronate but I never
imagined it could wipe us out like that.
I mean, we crowfoot are a hardy lot.
Old Uncle Slimleaf, rest his soul.
told us this Bronate wasn't like any other
herbicide. It was educated. It knew the
difference between weeds and wheat. It
even says on the label it will kill 26 kinds
of us.
He said farmers use it because
when it killed us, it wouldn't hurt a grain of
the wheat Even the new herbicide sensitive
varieties like luke wheat. And they'd get up
to 12 to 20 bushels more yield per acre.
JSromate
Wbrks on weeds, not wheat
That's why it's the first choice of farmers
out here in the Northwest.
Well, Uncle Slimleaf was right,
dead right.
Anyway, by the time we realized
Bronate was coming it was too late. We '
were goners.
It's just a matter of time for me
now. J don't know how much longer I can
hang on.
My last words to my fellow weeds
are: stay away from Bronate. It r-e-a-Il-y
w-o-rrr-ks."
For information on how Bronate can help you. see your supplier or write Mr. R. P. Rich. RhodiaChipman Division. 120 Jersey Avenue. New Brunswick, N.J. 08903.
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